Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [adv prt] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Adnan Khashoggi , a Saudi arms dealer , is being tried with her , accused of helping out in the property deals . |
| 2 | Locals tend to stick to the pleasures of eating out in the evening , but there are a few spots in town for night revels . |
| 3 | In present times the system is in danger of dying out in the Point district , as so many of the men and women have regular employment in town . |
| 4 | ‘ I think it 's a matter of stumbling around in the dark until we find a clue , ’ Loretta said gratefully . |
| 5 | Of course , one of the advantages of waking up in the night in a sweat is that you tend to have your best ideas whilst failing to get back to sleep . |
| 6 | Unlike many groups , The Wedding Present largely avoided the dubious pleasure of growing up in the public eye . |
| 7 | The idea of going out in the garden to sit looking back towards the house was popular , as was the line of the path , laid in stock bricks in a colour best described as crushed strawberry . |
| 8 | ‘ If you had stayed to hear what I had left to say , ’ Claire said , smiling , ‘ instead of rushing out in the rain , I would have told you that , at the end of your dark tunnel , you would eventually reach the light . ’ |
| 9 | Exercise consisted of getting up in the morning , reaching for a cigarette and climbing into the car . |
| 10 | At the moment the only thing making me write this essay is the thought of me being able to vegetate in front of the box tomorrow night and also , if I push my self and write three lines a minute I will be able to go to bed early and ease the strain and trauma of getting up in the morning and trudging off to another dreary day in school . |
| 11 | But psychologically what happens is , eventually they say well , what 's the point of getting up in the morning , so they lie in till ten o'clock . |
| 12 | Swail 's hopes of getting back in the match virtually disappeared when he lost the first frame of the final session . |
| 13 | A victim ( and in theory he could be male , although no man has yet , apparently , pursued a sexual harassment claim through the courts ) can leave and complain of unfair constructive dismissal but will often prefer to keep the option of staying on in the job and bringing a sex discrimination claim instead . |
| 14 | Back at base , Stirling had every intention of staying out in the desert and carrying on his raiding operations . |
| 15 | ‘ The lad has a history of moving on in the game . |
| 16 | It was also a way of moving up in the world . |
| 17 | They speak of opting out in the primary , secondary and further education sectors ; as for social services , they speak of monitoring and enabling rather than providing . |
| 18 | Last Autumn it gave up all pretence of continuing on in the business and sold off its Personal Mainframe hardware interests to clone newcomer Digital Systems Research ( UX No 407 ) . |
| 19 | Greta Scacchi , 31 , star of White Mischief and Heat and Dust says , ‘ I hate the thought of standing out in the crowd . |
| 20 | Has she thought of setting up in the coffin business herself ? |
| 21 | The journey was conceived and prepared through a Scottish winter with the idea of setting out in the spring . |
| 22 | ‘ We never use these drawers , if he 'd put the light on instead of feeling around in the dark he 'd have found that out immediately . ’ |
| 23 | You talk about getting work you talk about getting work and all that sort of thing erm we 've offered John , at one point , that if he did a bit of clearing up in the churchyard erm that he would be given a small amount of money . |
| 24 | You can thus save money compared with an overdraft — and save the effort of shopping around in the Money Market for credit which is anyway less flexible . |